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The Star Diaries
Stanislaw Lem
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Description for The Star Diaries
Paperback. Written over a period of twenty years, this book features adventures of space traveller Ijon Tichy. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 262.
A Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age - The New York Times Stanislaw Lem's set of short stories, written over a period of twenty years, all feature the adventures of space traveller Ijon Tichy and recount him spinning in time-warps, spying on robots, encountering bizarre civilizations and creatures in space and being hopelessly lost in a forest of supernovae. This is a philosophical satire on technology, theology, intelligence and human nature from one of the greatest of science fiction writers
A Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age - The New York Times Stanislaw Lem's set of short stories, written over a period of twenty years, all feature the adventures of space traveller Ijon Tichy and recount him spinning in time-warps, spying on robots, encountering bizarre civilizations and creatures in space and being hopelessly lost in a forest of supernovae. This is a philosophical satire on technology, theology, intelligence and human nature from one of the greatest of science fiction writers
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241240021
SKU
9780241240021
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About Stanislaw Lem
Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) was born in Lviv, then part of Poland. He is probably the most original and influential European science-fiction writer since H.G. Wells. Best known in the West for Tarkovsky's film of his novel Solaris, Lem wrote novels and stories that have been published all over the world. He is credited with anticipating in his writing artificial reality, ... Read more
Reviews for The Star Diaries
Stanislaw Lem was for 50 years Poland's premier intellectual of the imagination
John Clute
The Independent
A giant of 20th-century science fiction
The Guardian
Lem veers between joyous slapstick, freewheeling satire, and insanely involuted logical paradoxes
with surprisingly serious excursions into issues of will and faith. Funny, unexpected, tantalizing
Kirkus Reviews
John Clute
The Independent
A giant of 20th-century science fiction
The Guardian
Lem veers between joyous slapstick, freewheeling satire, and insanely involuted logical paradoxes
with surprisingly serious excursions into issues of will and faith. Funny, unexpected, tantalizing
Kirkus Reviews